Prof. Ing. Ivan Wilhelm, CSc, was inaugurated Rector of Charles University in Prague in the year 2000 for a three-year term and in 2003 he was re-elected for a second three-year term.
Prof. Wilhelm has a wide range of teaching experience in his field. Joining the Faculty of Technical and Nuclear Physics at the Czech Technical University in 1964 just after his graduation there, he supervised student practical work in General and Nuclear Physics, led seminars in lecture sources on the Physics of the Nucleus, and lectured in Neutron Physics. He continued to teach in these areas when he was appointed to the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in 1967, where he also supervised on degree dissertations.
From 1972, he was relegated to a technical staff position at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics for political reasons, and so had no chance of teaching and only limited possibilities for publishing in physics. Since 1990 he has been lecturing again on the Physics of the Atomic Nucleus (for the basic course in atomic and sub-atomic physics), leading the Seminar at the Van de Graaf Accelerator Laboratory, and supervising final-year and postgraduate students. He has organised laboratory practicals for students of Charles University and other universities (including some French universities) in the Van de Graaf Accelerator Laboratory. He still continues with these educational activities.
In the first phase of his career he carried out research on the mechanism of nuclear reactions at low energies, using the 6MeV Cyclotron in Rez near Prague. During his period at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna (1967-71) he worked on the properties of excited states of the nuclei brought about by alpha-decay after neutron capture in the resonance region of energies. In 1970 his experimental works on (n, alpha)-reactions were awarded the first prize of the Senior Committee of the Institute. After his return to Charles University he participated in experimental work on ternary fission studies, and study of the properties of exotic light nuclei (the products in the ternary fission process), and supervised the installation of a van de Graaf accelerator in the Nuclear Centre of Charles University. Recently he has made important measurements and major analytical progress in very sophisticated experimental study of the spin dependence of np scattering amplitudes at low energies, using polarised neutron beam and polarized proton target. These results, almost unique in the field of energy, have been accepted by an American group of laboratories that gathers and analyses such data from all over the world, and have contributed to the physical interpretation of the two-body potential. Currently Prof. Wilhelm is engaged in a further polarized n,d-scattering experiment, concerned with the three-body potential spin dependence study, which is started nowadays.
In the 1970s and 80s, Prof. Wilhelm was a member of the organising committee of traditional international conferences organised by the Slovak Academy of Science on fast neutron induced reactions and on dynamic aspects of nuclear fission. He has taken an active part in co-operation between Czech laboratories and the CERN Geneva on the ATLAS project after the acceptance of Czech republic to this centre. He has also held senior office in the university faculty and other organisations (Director of the Nuclear Centre 1990-1994, CU Vice-Rector for Development 1994-2000, Chairman of the Czech Council of Universities in 1996-99, member of the Executive Council of the European University Association, the President of the Czech Rectors´ Conference, the President of the Danube Rectors´ Conference for the period 2003/04, member of the Administrative Board of the International University Association. Since 1996 he has been a member of Scientific Council of JINR Dubna).
As the Rector of Charles University he is fully engaged in policy creation activities relating to administration, teaching and research in the university sector in the Czech Republic. In last 12 years he held a lot of contributions concerned to physics and especially to the questions of academic life on different gatherings.

Prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vacek, CSc., Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy since February 2003. Originally he studied Indian languages (Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi) and English. He has a long experience of teaching Sanskrit and Tamil and Indian linguistics. He also learned Mongolian in Mongolia and introduced the language at Charles University in 1976. Besides several monographs on aspects of Indian and Mongolian linguistics he has contributed many articles on the subject of Dravidian and Altaic linguistic relationship, a field, to which he applies a thoroughly new approach and in which he has made new discoveries. He wrote a number of textbooks (many of them in co-operation with Mongolian and Indian colleagues) and translated prose and classical Indian poetry into Czech (mainly Tamil). He served as Vice-Rector of Charles University for international relations in the years 1994-1997.

Alena Macurová, Ph.D. , is a professor of Czech language at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University, Prague. She is currently the head of the "Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication" where she initiated (in 1998) the only study program in the Czech Republic focused on the linguistic and the cultural aspects of deafness, the Czech sign language and the communication of the Czech Deaf.

Daniela Janáková, PhD. is a university teacher of English specialized in the updating and modernizing of language teaching. She also has done a lot of research on audio-oral teaching methods and on video LT methodology. >From 1987 to 1991 she was Deputy Head of the Department of Languages and Head of the English Section, in 1996 she established the Faculty of Arts Language Resource Centre aimed at self-study language programs, where she has been working as Head up to now. In 1998 she started to teach English to Deaf Charles University students as a part of the newly developed study program Czech in the Communication of the Deaf and extended her cooperation with universities abroad in regards to this very special field, organizing English Summer Schools for Czech deaf students there. As a Coordinator of teaching English to the Deaf in the Czech Republic she set up the first Prague Teacher-Training Seminar in 2000 and since 2002 Dr. Janáková has been the Czech PEN-International Team Leader. In cooperation with the Nippon Foundation and the NTID PEN-International Team she has also been coordinating the preparations of the Teacher-Training Seminar in Prague, 2004.

Helena Fikarová, M.A. has been teaching English all her life. From 1973 to 1996 she taught adult students of various age and language levels at the Foreign Trade Institute in Prague. Since 1996 she has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts Language Centre, Charles University in Prague. In 2000 she was involved in organizing teaching Charles University deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and in other activities connected with this subject. She helped Dr. Janáková with the preparations of the first Prague International Seminar on Teaching English to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students at Secondary and Tertiary Levels of Education. Since the year 2002 she has been a member of Czech PEN-International Team. At present she has been assisting Dr. Janáková at the preparations of the Second Prague International Teacher-Training Seminar 2004.

Helena Tvrdíková, M.A. has been teaching English all her life with the single exception of the years she worked for the Cultural Section of the American Embassy in Prague. Now she teaches English at the Language Center at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. She has been involved in teaching English to Hard-of-Hearing students at the Faculty of Arts since the beginning of the project and is a member of Czech PEN-International Team.

Hana Urychová, Ph.D. graduated from the Faculty of Arts in the year 1982. Till 1995 she was a Deputy Head of the Charles University Research Division and also helped to found Charles University Information and Advisory Centre. From 1999 to 2002 she was Head of the Charles University Study Department. In the year 2002 the Information and Advisory Centre became an independent department and Dr. Urychová was appointed its Head. She has been involved in many grant projects concerning Librarianship and Charles University Scientific Information System (1993), Information and Advisory Centres (1994), Carriers for Handicaped Charles University Graduates (1998), Development of Services of the Charles University Information and Advisory Centre(2001), Improving Study Conditions of Handicaped Charles University Students (2000-2004). She has been taking active part in the project Academia (2000-2004), and published several articles in journals and conference proceedings on professional advisory and information services.